[ros-general] possible FOSDEM shared non-linux devroom

[François Revol]

Hi,
as last year, I'm trying to organize a shared non-linux devroom at 
FOSDEM, to exchange on subjects like cross-platform drivers, porting 
woes...
We didn't get it last year, but this year the FOSDEM team wants to 
organize a "distro miniconf" and force them to share devrooms instead 
of each having their own, to free rooms to other projects. I believe it 
should be possible either as part of the distro summit, or outside.

If you want to participate in a non-linux devroom make sure you fill
the form:
http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_developer_rooms
quoting you would like to be part of a "non-linux" devroom, either as
part of the distro ones or separately.
If enough non-linux projects request a devroom maybe we'll get one...

Here is what I filled, you should probably reuse the name:
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* devroom name: Alt-OS (Anything-but-Linux-disTro Operating System)

* devroom description:

Talks and workshops about alternative (non Linux based) opensource
operating systems, in the purpose of sharing experience on application
ports, common driver development and design differences.

Possible talks include :
- POSIX & *nix compatibility coverage of alternative OSes (example
from Haiku...)
- *nix app porting tricks (autoconf, ...)
- OSSv4 port considerations
- status of the NetSurf port to Haiku

Possible workshops include :
- porting a command line application to Haiku
- porting a FreeBSD network driver to Haiku
- native hello world GUI application on Haiku

* devroom related URLs:
http://www.haiku-os.org/
http://groups.google.com/group/rosetta-os?pli=1
http://opensound.com/
http://netsurf-browser.org/

* comments/remarks:
It could either be done as part of the distro miniconf, or as a
separate room. We would actually welcome discussions with distro
projects too, on subjects like package management for example.

Possible projects interested in joining in:
RTEMS http://www.rtems.com/
Minix http://www.minix3.org/
AROS http://aros.org/
ReactOS http://www.reactos.org/fr/index.html
Syllable http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html
Other participants in the Rosetta OS (discussion group about non-linux
FOSS OSes) http://groups.google.com/group/rosetta-os?pli=1

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I'd suggest you also fill the form to show the orga how much demand
there is for it.
We'll get an answer by 2009-11-29.

You can also ask for a booth:
http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_stands
I just sent the Haiku request.

The general call for participation:
http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_participation

Note the deadline is november 22nd, so be quick!

François.